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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ FAA License Conversion

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ํ•œ๊ตญ ์กฐ์ข…์‚ฌ ๋ฉด์žฅ โ–ถ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ FAA ๋ฉดํ—ˆ
์ „ํ™˜ ๊ฐ€์ด๋“œ

Korean Pilot License โ–ถ US FAA License
Conversion Guide

ICAO ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ฉด์žฅ(๊ตญ๋‚ด) FAA 14 CFR ยง61.75 ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ PPL ์ „ํ™˜ ๋กœ๋“œ๋งต

ICAO Korean License FAA 14 CFR ยง61.75 PPL Conversion Roadmap

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ํ•ฉ๋ฒ•์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋น„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ
์ „ํ™˜ ์ ˆ์ฐจ ยท ํ•„์ˆ˜ ์„œ๋ฅ˜ ยท ์†Œ์š” ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ์™„์ „ ์ •๋ณต

Mastering Procedures ยท Required Docs ยท Timelines
for Legal Flight in the United States

์ž‘์„ฑ์ผ: 2026-03-22 | ์ž๋ฃŒ ์ถœ์ฒ˜: FAA.gov & ICAO Standards

Date: 2026-03-22 | Source: FAA.gov & ICAO Standards

์ „ํ™˜ ๊ฐœ์š” ๋ฐ ์ฃผ์š” ์ œํ•œ์‚ฌํ•ญ

Overview & Key Limitations

Section 01. Overview

์ „ํ™˜ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ (14 CFR ยง61.75)

Basis for Conversion (14 CFR ยง61.75)

ICAO ํšŒ์›๊ตญ(ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋“ฑ)์˜ ์œ ํšจํ•œ ์กฐ์ข…์‚ฌ ๋ฉด์žฅ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ FAA Private Pilot Certificate(PPL)๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
*๋ณ„๋„์˜ ๋น„ํ–‰ ์‹œํ—˜ ์—†์ด ์„œ๋ฅ˜ ๊ฒ€์ฆ๊ณผ ์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ์ง„ํ–‰

You can obtain a US FAA Private Pilot Certificate (PPL) based on a valid license from an ICAO member state.
*Document verification and interview only, no flight test.

๊ถŒํ•œ์˜ ์ข…์†์„ฑ (์œ ํšจ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ์—ฐ๋™)

Dependency of Privileges (Validity Link)

๋ฐœ๊ธ‰๋œ FAA ๋ฉด์žฅ์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์›๋ณธ ๋ฉด์žฅ์˜ ์œ ํšจ์„ฑ์— ์ข…์†๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ฉด์žฅ์ด๋‚˜ ์‹ ์ฒด๊ฒ€์‚ฌ์ฆ๋ช…(Medical)์ด ๋งŒ๋ฃŒ๋˜๋ฉด,
๋ฏธ๊ตญ FAA ๋ฉด์žฅ์˜ ํšจ๋ ฅ๋„ ์ฆ‰์‹œ ์ •์ง€๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The FAA license is dependent on the original Korean license.
If the original license or Medical expires,
the FAA license privileges cease immediately.

โ˜… ์ค‘์š”: ๋“ฑ๊ธ‰ ์ „ํ™˜ ์ œํ•œ (CPL ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€)

โ˜… Important: No CPL Conversion

ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ CPL(์‚ฌ์—…์šฉ)์„ ์†Œ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋”๋ผ๋„,
์ด ์ ˆ์ฐจ(ยง61.75)๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•˜๋ฉด ์ดˆ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๋ฌด์กฐ๊ฑด PPL(์ž๊ฐ€์šฉ) ๋“ฑ๊ธ‰์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
(FAA CPL ์ทจ๋“์„ ์›ํ•  ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ๋ณ„๋„์˜ ์‹œํ—˜ ํ•„์š”)

Even with a Korean CPL, this procedure (ยง61.75)
will only issue a PPL (Private) rating initially.
(Full FAA CPL requires a separate written and flight test)

์˜ˆ์ƒ ์†Œ์š” ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋ฐ ํƒ€์ž„๋ผ์ธ

Estimated Duration & Timeline

๋ฉด์žฅ ๊ฒ€์ฆ ์š”์ฒญ (AC 8060-71 ์–‘์‹ ์ œ์ถœ)

Verification Request (Form AC 8060-71)

๊ฒ€์ฆ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ (45 ~ 90์ผ)

Processing Period (45 ~ 90 Days)

๊ฒ€์ฆ ์„œํ•œ(Verification Letter) ์ˆ˜๋ น

Receive Verification Letter

FSDO/DPE ์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ (์ตœ์†Œ 2์ฃผ ์ „)

Interview Appointment (Min. 2 weeks prior)

์˜ˆ์•ฝ ๋ฐ ์—ฌํ–‰ ๊ณ„ํš ์‹œ ์ฃผ์˜์‚ฌํ•ญ

Booking & Travel Planning Notes

1. ๊ฒ€์ฆ ์„œํ•œ ์ˆ˜๋ น ์ „ ์—ฌํ–‰ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€: ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ ์ง€์—ฐ ๋Œ€๋น„
2. ์œ ํšจ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ 6๊ฐœ์›”: ์ด ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋‚ด ์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐ ์™„๋ฃŒ ํ•„์š”

1. No Travel Before Letter: Prepare for potential delays.
2. 6-Month Validity: Must complete interview within this period.

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์ „ํ™˜ ์ ˆ์ฐจ 5๋‹จ๊ณ„

5 Steps of Conversion

Section 02. Process Map

01. AC 8060-71 ์–‘์‹ ์ œ์ถœ

02. Verification Letter ์ˆ˜๋ น

03. FSDO/DPE ์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ

04. IACRA ๊ฐ€์ž… ๋ฐ ์‹ ์ฒญ์„œ ์ž‘์„ฑ

05. ์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐ ํ›„ ์ž„์‹œ๋ฉด์žฅ ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰

01. Submit Form AC 8060-71

02. Receive Verification Letter

03. Book FSDO/DPE Interview

04. Register on IACRA & Fill Application

05. Temporary License Issued After Interview

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ํ•„์ˆ˜ ์„œ๋ฅ˜ ๋ฐ ์‚ฌ์ „ ์ค€๋น„

Required Documents & Preparation

Section 03. Checklist

โœ” ํ•œ๊ตญ ์กฐ์ข…์‚ฌ ๋ฉด์žฅ (License)
โœ” ํ•ญ๊ณต์‹ ์ฒด๊ฒ€์‚ฌ์ฆ๋ช… (Medical)
โœ” ์—ฌ๊ถŒ (Passport)
โœ” Verification Letter (๊ฒ€์ฆ ์„œํ•œ)
โœ” ๋กœ๊ทธ๋ถ (Pilot Logbook)
โœ” ์˜๋ฌธ ์ด๋ฆ„ ์ผ์น˜ ํ™•์ธ (์ค‘์š”)

โœ” Korean Pilot License
โœ” Medical Certificate
โœ” Passport
โœ” Verification Letter
โœ” Pilot Logbook
โœ” Matching English Name (Critical)

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์ฃผ์˜์‚ฌํ•ญ ๋ฐ ์œ ์šฉํ•œ ํŒ

Precautions & Useful Tips

Section 04. Tips & Notes

โ–ถ IR(๊ณ„๊ธฐ๋น„ํ–‰) ์ž๊ฒฉ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•
๋ณ„๋„์˜ ๋น„ํ–‰ ์‹œํ—˜ ์—†์ด, FAA ์™ธ๊ตญ ์กฐ์ข…์‚ฌ ๊ณ„๊ธฐ ์ง€์‹ ์‹œํ—˜(IFP) ํ•ฉ๊ฒฉ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ FAA ๋ฉด์žฅ์— ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ–ถ ๋ฌด์ œํ•œ(Standalone) FAA PPL/CPL ์ทจ๋“
ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ฉด์žฅ์— ์ข…์†๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์™„์ „ํ•œ FAA ๋ฉด์žฅ ์ทจ๋“์„ ์›ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์‹ ๊ธฐ ์ทจ๋“๊ณผ ๋™์ผํ•˜๊ฒŒ (ํ•„๊ธฐ+๋น„ํ–‰๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ+์‹ค๊ธฐ) ์ „ ๊ณผ์ •์„ ๊ฑฐ์ณ์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โš ๏ธ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์œ ์˜์‚ฌํ•ญ
1. Verification Letter ์ˆ˜๋ น ์ „๊นŒ์ง€ ํ•ญ๊ณต๊ถŒ ์˜ˆ์•ฝ์„ ์ž์ œํ•˜์„ธ์š”.
2. ์›๋ณธ ๋ฉด์žฅ๊ณผ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ฆ๋น™ ์„œ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ์ง€์ฐธํ•˜์„ธ์š”.
3. Verification Letter๋Š” ๋ฐœ๊ธ‰ ํ›„ 6๊ฐœ์›”๊ฐ„๋งŒ ์œ ํšจํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ–ถ How to Add IR (Instrument Rating)
Can be added to FAA license simply by passing the FAA IFP (Instrument Rating Foreign Pilot) knowledge test, without a flight test.

โ–ถ Obtaining Standalone FAA PPL/CPL
To obtain a full FAA license independent of your Korean license, you must complete the entire process (Written + Experience + Practical) just like a new applicant.

โš ๏ธ Key Precautions
1. Avoid booking flights until you receive your Verification Letter.
2. Always carry your original license and all supporting documents.
3. Verification Letters are only valid for 6 months after issuance.

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